This town just named itself Gilead

This town just named itself Gilead

In a move that is truly baffling, a small Australian town has been named “Gilead” much to the chagrin of social media users and “The Handmaid’s Tale” fans who are exclaiming “WTF?”.

Located just outside Campbelltown in New South Wales, Lendlease is building 2,000 new homes on the development and calling it a “new lifestyle gateway,” without fully realizing the gravity of such a statement when you take into account the Handmaid’s connection. I’m speaking, of course, about the fact that the dystopian society that “The Handmaid’s Tale” is set in is called Gilead.